..This strategy may reduce the overall incidence of hospitalization and subsequent readmissions as well as save costs. Outcome studies are needed before a widespread implementation of such strategies...

..However, before its widespread use, its efficacy on clinical outcome measures such as reduction of time to treatment or in-hospital length of stay should be more clearly demonstrated through pragmatic studies...

..Furthermore, early treatment may be effective. As D-dimer (DD) measurement is a sensitive test for the exclusion of venous thromboembolism, the authors studied whether this test could be useful in the diagnosis of CVT...